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七 kanji
seven
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 2
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
シチ
Kun readings
ななななつなの
Words with 七
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —過去七仏the seven previous incarnations of Buddha
- —三七人参notoginseng (Panax pseudoginseng)
- —七十二候the 72 microseasons of the year based on the 24 solar seasons further divided into 3
- —七年戦争Seven Years' War (1756-1763)
- —天神七代seven generations of celestial deities
- —七三分けside parting; hair parted to one side
- —七月革命July Revolution (France, 1830)
- —七大私学seven boarding schools established in Kyoto by noble families during the early Heian period
- —茶事七式seven styles of tea ceremonies
- —戦国七雄Seven Warring States (of China); Seven Kingdoms
- —五畿七道the five home provinces and seven districts of ancient Japan
- —十七回忌16th anniversary of one's death
- —七花八裂being torn to pieces
- —七音音階heptatonic scale; seven note scale; heptachord
- —七の和音seventh chord
- —七転八起not giving up; keeping at it until one succeeds
- —四十七士The 47 Ronin
- —七人の侍Seven Samurai (film by Akira Kurosawa)
- —七味唐辛子blend of seven spices (cayenne, sesame, Japanese pepper, citrus peel, etc.)
- —十七条憲法The Seventeen-Article Constitution